A warden at the federal jail where Ghislaine Maxwell and R. Kelly are being held has been charged with murder in the shooting of her husband
Police said a warden at a federal jail in Brooklyn shot and killed her husband Monday.
The jail houses R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell as they await their trials.
People held in the facility have complained about the conditions of the jail.
The associate warden of a New York federal jail - which is housing Ghislaine Maxwell and R. Kelly - has been charged with murder in the shooting of her husband at their New Jersey home, authorities said.
Authorities said Antonia Ashford, 44, of Jackson, shot her 47-year-old husband, Roderick Ashford, with a handgun on Monday.
Officers with the Jackson Township Police Department responded to the couple's home about 2:15 a.m. Monday and found Roderick Ashford lying unresponsive on the floor with a gunshot wound to the face, officials said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Roderick Ashford worked as a drug-treatment specialist at the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix, in New Jersey, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told Insider.
Antonia Ashford is an associate warden at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, where Maxwell - a longtime Jeffrey Epstein confidant - and R. Kelly are being held as they await their trials.
While she was charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, Maxwell was housed in the Brooklyn detention center after Epstein killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial in the federal Manhattan jail.
Maxwell, as well as others held the jail, has criticized the conditions of the facility. Maxwell's lawyers have told the judge in her case that jail guards routinely don't grant her the privacy and laptop access she needs to review documentation for her case.
They have also alleged in court filings that staff members deprive her of sleep, that they don't properly heat up food, and that the stench of sewage permeates her cell.
Prosecutors have said in response that nighttime checkups on inmates are normal and that Maxwell leaves her toilet unflushed.
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